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About Ballingarry

Ballingarry, Baile an Gharraí in Irish, is a village in County Limerick, 26 km south-west of Limerick. It stands on the R518. The map gives it 697 buildings and 1 named street, with 12 places named on them in 18 kinds, and 79 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 22th largest of the 65 settlements this site covers in County Limerick.

Where
26 km south-west of Limerick, 200 km from Dublin
Position
52.4738° N, 8.8633° W
Roads
R518
Governed
Limerick County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
697 buildings, 1 street, 12 named places in 18 kinds
Knockfeerina near Ballingarry - famine house
Knockfeerina near Ballingarry - famine house·Colin Park, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Castles of Munster, Ballingarry, Limerick geograph.org.uk 1541594
Castles of Munster, Ballingarry, Limerick geograph.org.uk 1541594·Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

County Limerick since 1841

Every census of the county, which is the only way to see what happened to rural Ireland: the fall from the Famine runs for a century, and the recovery is recent.

330,029133,339209,53618412022

Source: Central Statistics Office, table F1001 'Population at Each Census', read through the PxStat API, read 2026-09-20.

What to see

Closest to the centre first, with how far each one is.

All 79 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R518 running through Ballingarry.

By bus or train

1 line calls at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Ballingarry National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Ballingarry?
In County Limerick, in the province of Munster, 26 km south-west of Limerick and 200 km from Dublin, on the R518.
How big is Ballingarry?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 697 buildings, 1 named street and 12 named places, which by building count makes it the 22th largest of the 65 settlements this site covers in County Limerick.
What is there to see in Ballingarry?
79 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Ballingarry Town Park, Sunday Well and St John's Well.
How do you get to Ballingarry?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by TFI Local Link Limerick Clare.
Has County Limerick grown or shrunk?
The census counted 330,029 people in the county in 1841 and 209,536 in 2022.
697
buildings on the model
1
named streets
12
named places
18
kinds of place

Buildings, streets, places, roads and position are OpenStreetMap, counted by this site rather than quoted from anywhere. Population, elevation, area and twinning are structured claims on Wikidata (item Q4076783). County population is the Central Statistics Office. Journeys are the National Transport Authority’s published timetable. Every sentence on this page is written from those numbers; none of it is copied from a description of the place.

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